Caroline Harrington, who lives in Minnesota, was inspired by Katie Couric to start doing a Thanksgiving gratitude tablecloth. She now has years of messages.

What started as a plain white tablecloth now holds 16 years of family memories. The tablecloth features signatures, footprints from newborns and a drawing of a graduate’s mortar board.

Here's some infomation on the two projects from Anna Kotowicz and Arthur Puszkarezicz of AZE design: -- MESSY tablecloth Nowadays we eat whatever and wherever.

Polish designers AZEdesign have created two textile products embellished with the outlines of objects which may be placed on them while in use. The first project, called the Messy table cloth, is ...